Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. View all New York Times newsletters. The educated class has built an ever more intricate net to cradle us in and ease everyone else out. We in the educated class have created barriers to mobility that are more devastating for being invisible. The rest of America can’t name them, can’t understand them.

Source: New York Times July 11, 2017 07:18 UTC